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Lawmaker Offers Up Bill to Promote Computer-Science Ed.

Over at Digital Education, my colleague Ian Quillen highlights a bill just introduced in the U.S. House to help promote high-quality computer-science education in schools.

Last month, I wrote a story about recent initiatives to increase access at the precollegiate level to high-quality instruction in computer science. These efforts come as national statistics indicate that computing will be one of the fastest-growing areas for employment in coming years, but experts say the U.S. educational pipeline is expected to fall far short in producing college graduates in the field.

A press release from the Association for Computing Machinery says: "The central part of the act proposes grants to assess the current condition of computer-science education in the states, and create state plans and actions for reform. It also calls for the formation of a commission to review the national computer-science education environment, and create strong teacher-preparation programs at institutions of higher education."

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